Sentence examples for plot novel from inspiring English sources

And what's the best marriage plot novel ever?

The author of "The Marriage Plot" and "Middlesex" says the best marriage plot novel of all time is Henry James's "Portrait of a Lady," because it presents an "anti-marriage" plot.

To wangle a spouse who offers not only the necessary (financial security) but also the desirable (good looks, a pleasant personality, kindness, crackling chemistry) was the ultimate coup in a marriage plot novel like those of Jane Austen.

Much of the delicate irony and layered social commentary, however, don't make it to the screen alongside the love stories ― and this precise, observant wit is what originally elevated her work above other marriage plot novels of the time.

As these stories develop, connections emerge - so many connections, in fact, that Yellow Dog starts to look like a teasing, testing parody of a Victorian multi-plot novel - Dickens with a snarl.

Told in reverse chronology, this deftly plotted novel concerns the entwined lives of four Londoners during and after the Blitz.

HARLOT'S GHOST (1991): A densely plotted novel about the Central Intelligence Agency, which Mr. Mailer invests with near-mythological properties.

The I.N.S. plays matchmaker in this slyly plotted novel, bringing an unlikely couple together and tearing them apart.

The protagonist of this ingeniously plotted novel, set in North Korea, is both victim and perpetrator of countless crimes.

By John Updike Jonathan Safran Foer, born in 1977, came out swinging in 2002, with the publication of his astounding, clownish, tender, intricately and extravagantly plotted novel "Everything Is Illuminated".

The first installment of a projected trilogy, this sweeping, carefully plotted novel traces the history, from 1920 to the Cold War era, of a single Iowa farming family.